
Three Obscure Vintage Dive Watches for Sale Right Now
The Rolex Submariner may be the archetypal dive watch, but there are plenty of interesting vintage alternatives out there.
Zen Love is Gear Patrol's Associate Editor. He has been deeply obsessed with watches for over a decade and has written about them professionally for nearly as long. Since 2019, he's been covering anything that ticks and fits on the wrist for Gear Patrol with a bent toward making watches' history, mechanics, and collector culture approachable and democratic. He is always punctual.
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